Give chance a chance

Give chance a chance

How did I get to become a cell biologist? Or, more generally, why do things happen the way they do? The answer provided by the philosopher Democritus and later adopted by Jacques Monod is "everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity." While I read Monod's book Chance and Necessity as an undergraduate student, little did I appreciate the accuracy of this citation and...

Give Us a Chance, Matron

Glare Marc Wallace shows, by her own experience, mat me uuiding profession is no different from any other when it comes to re-employing a member who has been mentally ill I have been an atypical schizophrenic for 12 years, and have been admitted to psychiatric hospital on 17 occasions for short periods during that time. Because of my history, I have had difficulty in getting suitable work. The ...

Give the kid a chance.

Give chance a chance- modeling density to enhance scatter plot quality through random data sampling

The problem of visualizing huge amounts of data is well known in Information Visualization. Dealing with a large number of items forces almost any kind of Infovis technique to reveal its limits in terms of expressivity and scalability. In this paper we focus on 2D scatter plots, proposing a ”feature preservation” approach, based on the idea of modeling the visualization in a virtual space in or...

James E . Alcock Give the Null Hypothesis a Chance

Is there a world beyond the senses? Can we perceive future events before they occur? Is it possible to communicate with others without need of our complex sensory-perceptual apparatus that has evolved over hundreds of millions of years? Can our minds/souls/personalities leave our bodies and operate with all the knowledge and information-processing ability that is normally dependent upon the phy...